Wednesday, September 21st 2005
ASUS PhysX Card Ready
"Here's a pic on how the PhysX card using AGEIA PhysX processor from ASUS will look like. In comparison with the reference card, there are some differences in the PCB and components layout. Now the PhysX card looks more like a graphics card with 128MB onboard GDDR3 memories, a heatsink fan to cool the PPU and also a 12V Molex connector for additional power source. The PPU is made on 0.13 micron technology and contains 125M transistors. Upcoming game titles like Unreal Tournament 2007 featuring Unreal Engine 3.0, Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport, Dogtag, Sacred sequel will be able to support AGEIA physics technology. BFG will be making the PhysX cards too and is slated for this Christmas release."
Maybe this is the begining to a new era of video cards... Sounds pretty interesting I wonder if it would do as well as lets say a 7800?
Source VR-Zone
19 Comments on ASUS PhysX Card Ready
is that 256-bit mem?
btw here is a better pic of the referance :)
btw my old tnt trident also voodoo card all of 'em have this kind a connectors also i have a little bot doubt "r they still test ver"
I can picture it now, you dont buy a separate gfx card and ppu card, with both having a fan spinning on each making extra heat and noise inside the case, you just have one card with say 512 Meg of memory on it and both chips, im sure you can put it on a PCI-e lane to get it to work
I'm reserving judgement on this. Unlike graphics, physics calculations have to be the same for everyone. In a multiplayer situation, what happens if a player gets hit on one person's screen (because they have/don't have a physics card) and they don't on the other (vice-versa of other person)? Perhaps for gaming servers.
And what they will actually work with, or is info still sketchy?
-Adam
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btw i had a post here for ppu if u guys wanna know more about just search it & cut all of this ...
It just calculates the many many calculations the GPUs need to know, to animate that particular object as its hit.. which a CPU has to do right now.